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Brydie Lee-Kennedy @brydielk.bsky.social · 21h

This hits with me, who just finished watching a Slow Horses episode

Brydie Lee-Kennedy @brydielk.bsky.social · 1d

While everyone is talking about Nicole Kidman can I just say that if you haven't seen To Die For you should watch it tonight. It's a perfect movie and she plays a beautiful freak which she's, you know, extremely good at.

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: OpenAI has signed its first ever Australia government contract, quietly inking a deal with Treasury amid the ChatGPT-maker's charm offensive on policymakers.

This modest contract is an ideal foothold into future, more lucrative deals, according to one firm's analysis.
www.crikey.com.au/20...

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 2d

“where’s the whale? did he get the whale yet?”

lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 2d

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Brydie Lee-Kennedy @brydielk.bsky.social · 3d

Very flattered that this rando Republican thinks 1) Dead End is the “number one rated” cartoon on Netflix and 2) that we had the budget for claymation. I love a bit of attempted censorship by the stupidest people on earth ❤️

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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 4d

Greta Thunberg is held prisoner by Israel at a jail in the Negev. Read what Sweden’s embassy in Israel reports are the conditions of her detention ⬇️

Now just imagine: if Israel treats a world-famous Swedish activist this way, how badly are its prisons abusing Palestinians?

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Brydie Lee-Kennedy @brydielk.bsky.social · 6d

I gotta hand it to him, this is a good bit

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 6d

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 7d

Far too many people in the US are already totally untethered from reality. Enter AI:

“Part of what keeps us sane is other people’s perspectives, which are often in tension with ours,” says Carissa Véliz, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI. “When you say something questionable, others will challenge you, ask questions, defy you. It can be annoying, but it keeps us tied to reality, and it is the basis of a healthy democratic citizenry. Truth is intersubjective, meaning that we need other people — their testimony, their experiences, their rationality — to be well informed. And chatbots are not people. They don’t have experience. They are not witness. They are fancy wordplay.”

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 The Sumud flotilla is under attack in international waters.

The violent Israeli response, of drone and the violent naval attack, on an aid flotilla in international waters confirms the brutal illegality of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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Brydie Lee-Kennedy @brydielk.bsky.social · 7d

Shout out to the anti cancel culture brigade for trying to cancel our show three years after it was cancelled. Cancel early, cancel often!
www.attitude.co.uk/news/elon-mu...

Elon Musk urges parents to cancel Netflix over 'transgender woke agenda' in children's series Dead End

Elon Musk has urged parents to cancel their Netflix subscriptions, claiming the streaming service is promoting a "transgender woke agenda".

www.attitude.co.uk

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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 8d

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

Paris too

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Brydie Lee-Kennedy @brydielk.bsky.social · 8d

I think it would actually be very BRAVE and FASCIST FIGHTING and HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT if Netflix gave us a season three order 🫡

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Brydie Lee-Kennedy @brydielk.bsky.social · 8d

Wow all the hours we spent in the writers room brainstorming how to appeal to fascist billionaires WASTED

✨ Hamish Steele ✨ Buy Go-Man! @hamishsteele.bsky.social · 8d

It's probably going to be a very odd day

Screenshot of Elon Musk tweeting "this is not ok" as a reply to Libs of TikTok posting "omg. Dead end paranormal park, a show on netflix, is pushing pro-teangeder on CHILDREN. This show is advertised for 7-year-olds. It's being promoted on netflix kids now. Parents - beware" with an attached photo of Barney from the show.

Elon's tweet has 3.6k comments, 8.7k retweets, 60k likes and 4.2million views

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 9d

just guess

cait (and adonis)
@cait.bsky.social
i'm sorry to say this but if you send me a tiktok of a person telling a story into the camera for 3 minutes i'm not fucking watching it. just in general ever. people need to start typing things up again because i can read so much faster than you can talk and i'm not wasting my precious time on this
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Brydie Lee-Kennedy @brydielk.bsky.social · 10d

I'll accept a lot of nonsense in my TV shows but in the new series of Slow Horses someone describes Jack Lowden's character as "asexual" as a way of implying no one would find him attractive and...come on. He's a good actor but we still have eyes. This has been "Horny Reviews", thanks for your time.

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 13d

It's good to see that Zach Woods has only become more powerful and based with time.

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Brydie Lee-Kennedy @brydielk.bsky.social · 15d

Sorry you’re feeling so rough mate, hope it clears up soon ❤️

Brydie Lee-Kennedy @brydielk.bsky.social · 15d

Have they tested you for walking pneumonia? We got it last year and it doesn’t show up on the standard tests and it also requires different antibiotics to the other stuff 🙃

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 17d

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 17d

Not only is the hunger for new data centres already impacting Australia's energy demands, it's even driving down our ambitions for reducing our emissions, Ketan Joshi reports in Crikey.

www.crikey.com.au/20...

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Brydie Lee-Kennedy @brydielk.bsky.social · 20d

Truly the finest blogs in an era of fine blogs www.gawkerarchives.com/the-best-res...

The Best Restaurant in New York Is The American Girl Café

There are a bunch of restaurants in the world, including some in New York City. But in a city of over 24,000 restaurants, how do you find the best? You begin your search in places that are already pop...

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Brydie Lee-Kennedy @brydielk.bsky.social · 20d

Choosing to believe this guy was booted for not sufficiently appreciating the Best Restaurant In New York series

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 20d

Of fucking COURSE

Screenshot of text on butter-colored Semafor background:

This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the [italics] Gawker comments section [roman], way back in the day. But as progressive

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 21d

I wrote about the experience of government of, by, and for people who have been driven insane by screens. (This is a gift link, please Consider Defector if you are interested in subscribing to a website) defector.com/the-united-s...

The United States Of Snitches | Defector

On Saturday, the chairman of the Republican Party in Michigan’s Oakland County spent his afternoon directing his online followers’ attention to local businesses that had not lowered their flags to hal...

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 21d

Jesus Christ.

It was my birthday recently and I sincerely considered not living anymore.
The worst part of all is that the parents who once supported me fully in being an artist sent me an AI generated picture of a caricature of themselves holding a birthday cake with my name spelled incorrectly.

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